[sphinx]

550 million acres, all by executive fiat. It is good to be king.

Per the chart, Bush 43 was also profligate, with Jimmy Carter third. This is a power that needs to be reined in.

I would guess that most of the land pre-empted in this way over the years has been Forest Service or BLM lands that are being withdrawn from regular management systems.

[hinckley buzzard]

I have missed most of Nevada but been all over Utah from I-70 south to Arizona. The land is so vast and empty that to designate it this way seems really redundant. On the other hand, it doesn't hurt anything, for the land is wide open to anyone who should want to traverse it. The petroglyphs and such are already protected by law. I am enough of a conservationist to not object to this protection, but in reality the whole point was to keep energy development out of the Bears Ears tract. This is an anti-energy action, not a conservation action. Do not be deceived.